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The Short Story Day Africa Prize longlist:
Limbo by Innocent Ilo (Nigeria);
All Our Lives by Okafor Tochukwu (Nigeria);
Borrowed by the Wind by David Medalie (South Africa);
God Skin by Michael Yee (South Africa);
Who We Were Then, Who We Are Now by Nadu Ologoudou (Benin);
Plums by Kharys Laue (South Africa);
Waiting by Harriet Anena (Uganda);
The Piano Player by Agazit Abate (Ethiopia);
A Brief Eruption Of Madness by Eric Essono Tsimi (Cameroon);
When the War Came Home by Heran Abate (Ethiopia);
Ibinabo by Michael Agugom (Nigeria);
Fever by Alithnayn Abdulkareem (Nigeria);
Unblooming by Alexis Teyie (Kenya);
Transubstantiation by Genna Gardini (South Africa);
Taba by Adelola Ojutiku (Nigeria);
Bloated by Hanna Ali (Somalia);
The Geography of Sunflowers by Michelle Angwenyi (Kenya);
The House on the Corner by Lester Walbrugh (South Africa);
Blue in Green by Chourouq Nasri (Morocco);
Sew Your Mouth by Cherrie Kandie (Kenya);
South of Samora by Farai Mudzingwa (Zimbabwe).

About the Author

Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers,

teachers and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read,

workshop and discuss stories.

Reviews

`[Short Story Day Africa] articulates the relationship between globalized first-world culture, with its expectations of fiction, genre, and style, and various African localities.' Los Angeles Review of Books